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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3</span><span class="fp-text">PROLOGUE, PHÈDRE À EUTYCHE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="...  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">PROLOGUS, </span></span><span class="fp-original" title="PROLOGUS,   (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-no-difference">[...]</span></span> PHAEDRUS AD EUTYCHUM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si vous voulez, mon cher Eutyche, lire le petit ouvrage de Phèdre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il faut un moment oublier les affaires ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">votre esprit, libre alors, pourra goûter le charme de la poésie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Mais, me direz- vous, ton mérite n'est pas tel,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qu'il me faille perdre un seul des moments dus à mes travaux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—En ce cas, que vos mains ne touchent point à ce livre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il ne saurait convenir à un esprit préoccupé.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Il viendra, répondrez-vous peut-être,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">quelques jours de fêtes, qui, en me donnant la liberté, m'appelleront à l'étude.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Mais, je vous le demande, lirez-vous ces bagatelles</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">au lieu de vaquer à vos affaires,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de visiter vos amis, d'être tout entier à votre femme,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de détendre votre esprit, de reposer votre corps,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour reprendre avec plus de vigueur vos occupations ordinaires&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il faut changer de plan et de manière de vivre,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">si vous songez à pénétrer dans le sanctuaire des Muses.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quant à moi, ma mère me mit au jour sur le sommet du Piérus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">où Mnémosyne, neuf fois féconde, avait donné à Jupiter</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tonnant les protectrices des arts.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quoique je sois né presque au sein de leur école,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que j'aie étouffé dans mon âme toute ambition de fortune,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et que j'aie obtenu des succès marquants,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">les Muses ne me reçoivent encore qu'avec dédain.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Qu'arrivera-t-il donc à celui qui s'épuise en veilles</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour amonceler des trésors,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">préférant une douce opulence à de doctes travaux&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Après tout, advienne que pourra, comme disait Sinon,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">quand on le conduisit devant le roi de Pergame ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je vais donner un troisième livre écrit dans le style d'Ésope</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et je le dédie à vos talents et à votre mérite.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si vous le lisez, je me réjouirai ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sinon, la postérité y trouvera certainement quelque plaisir.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Phaedri libellos legere si desideras,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">vaces oportet, Eutyche, a negotiis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut liber animus sentiat vim carminis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Verum, <span class="fp-correction" title="inquit  (orig. avec err. de synt.)"><span class="fp-difference">inquis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="inquis  (err. de synt. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">inquit</span></span>, tanti non est ingenium tuum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">momentum ut horae pereat <span class="fp-correction" title="officii  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">officiis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="officiis  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">officii</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="mei  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">meis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="meis  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">mei</span></span>.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Non ergo causa est manibus id tangi tuis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod occupatis auribus non convenit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Fortasse dices&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Aliquae venient feriae,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quae me <span class="fp-correction" title="solito  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">soluto</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="soluto  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">solito</span></span> pectore ad studium vocent.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Legesne, <span class="fp-correction" title="queso  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaeso</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaeso  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">queso</span></span>, potius viles nenias,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">impendas curam quam rei <span class="fp-correction" title="domestice  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">domesticae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="domesticae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">domestice</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">reddas amicis tempora, uxori vaces,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">animum relaxes, otium des corpori,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut adsuetam fortius <span class="fp-correction" title="prestes  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">praestes</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="praestes  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">prestes</span></span> vicem&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Mutandum tibi propositum est, ut vitae genus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">intrare si Musarum limen cogitas.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego quem Pierio mater enixa est jugo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">in quo tonanti sancta <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n92/mode/1up">p.29</a>]</span> <span class="fp-correction" title="Nemosyne  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Mnemosyne</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Mnemosyne  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Nemosyne</span></span> Jovi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="facunda  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">fecunda</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fecunda  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">facunda</span></span> novies artium peperit chorum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quamvis in ipsa natus sim <span class="fp-correction" title="pene  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">paene</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="paene  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">pene</span></span> schola</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="curamquae  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">curamque</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="curamque  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">curamquae</span></span> habendi penitus corde eraserim</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et laude <span class="fp-correction" title="invita  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">invitatus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="invitatus  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">invita</span></span> in hanc vitam incubuerim,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="fastidiose  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">fastidiosae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fastidiosae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fastidiose</span></span> tamen in coetum recipior.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quid credis illi accidere qui magnas opes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">exaggerare quaerit omni vigilia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">docto labori dulce <span class="fp-correction" title="preponens  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">praeponens</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="praeponens  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">preponens</span></span> lucrum&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sed jam quodcumque fuerit, ut dixit Sinon</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ad regem cum Dardaniae perductus foret,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">librum exarabo tertium Aesopi stilo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">honori et meritis dedicans illum tuis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quem si leges, laetabor ; sin autem minus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">habebunt certe quo se oblectent posteri.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Maintenant, je dirai en peu de mots pourquoi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">on imagina l'apologue. La servitude, entourée de dangers,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne pouvant exprimer ses pensées, transporta ses sentiments dans les fables,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et déjoua la malveillance par d'ingénieuses fictions.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">J'ai fait une large route du sentier d'Ésope ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et en cherchant des sujets dans les malheurs que j'ai éprouvés,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">39&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">j'ai écrit plus de fables qu'il n'en avait laissé,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">40&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et j'ai même traité plusieurs sujets pour mon malheur.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">41&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si j'avais eu un autre accusateur,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">42&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">un autre témoin, un autre juge que Séjan,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">43&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">j'avouerais avoir mérité tant d'infortunes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">44&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et je ne chercherais pas de tels remèdes à ma douleur.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">45&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Celui qui, s'égarant en de vains soupçons,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">46&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">s'appliquera à lui seul ce que j'ai écrit pour tous,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">47&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">trahira bien sottement le fond de sa conscience.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">48&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Toutefois, je veux d'avance m'excuser auprès de lui ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">49&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car je désire, non signaler des vices particuliers,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">50&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais retracer en général les mœurs et la vie humaine.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nunc, fabularum cur sit inventum genus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">brevi docebo. Servitus obnoxia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quia quae volebat non audebat dicere,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">affectus proprios in fabellas transtulit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">calumniamque <span class="fp-correction" title="fiet scelus locis it  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">fictis elusit jocis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fictis elusit jocis  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fiet scelus locis it</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ego illius porro semita feci viam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">39&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et cogitavi plura quam reliquerat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">40&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n93/mode/1up">p.30</a>]</span> in calamitatem <span class="fp-correction" title="diligens  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">deligens</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="deligens  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">diligens</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="quedam  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaedam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaedam  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quedam</span></span> meam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">41&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quod <span class="fp-correction" title="sit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">si</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="si  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sit</span></span> accusator alius Sejano foret,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">42&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">si testis alius, judex alius denique,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">43&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">dignum faterer esse me tantis malis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">44&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec his dolorem <span class="fp-correction" title="delenirem  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">delinirem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="delinirem  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">delenirem</span></span> remediis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">45&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Suspitione si quis errabit sua</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">46&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et rapiet ad se quod erit commune omnium,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">47&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">stulte <span class="fp-correction" title="nudavit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">nudabit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="nudabit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">nudavit</span></span> animi conscientiam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">48&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Huic excusatum me velim nihilominus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">49&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">neque enim notare singulos mens est mihi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">50&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">verum ipsam vitam et mores hominum ostendere.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">51&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Peut-être me dira-t-on que la tâche est lourde.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">52&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais si Ésope le Phrygien et le Scythe Anacharsis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">53&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se sont immortalisés par leur génie, pourquoi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">54&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">moi, qui liens de phis près à la Grèce savante,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">55&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">abandonnerais-je dans un lâche repos, la gloire de ma patrie&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">56&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La Thrace compte aussi ses écrivains ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">57&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Apollon ne fut-il pas le père de Linus&nbsp;? une Muse la mère d'Orphée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">58&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">celui dont la lyre harmonieuse émut les rochers,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">59&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">dompta les bêtes féroces, arrêta le cours impétueux de l'Hèbre&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">60&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Arrière donc, pâle Envie&nbsp;! car tu gémirais en vain</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">61&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de la gloire éclatante qui m'est réservée.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">51&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Rem me professum dicet forsan aliquis gravem. (Frige fuisse Aesopum).</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">52&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Si <span class="fp-correction" title="Phrix  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Phryx</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Phryx  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Phrix</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="Esopus  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aesopus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Aesopus  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Esopus</span></span> potuit, Anacharsis <span class="fp-correction" title="Scythae  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">Scytha</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Scytha  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Scythae</span></span></span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">53&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="eternam  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">aeternam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="aeternam  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">eternam</span></span> famam condere ingenio suo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">54&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ego litteratae qui sum propior Graeciae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">55&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cur somno inerti deseram patriae decus&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">56&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Threissa cum gens numeret auctores suos</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">57&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">linoque Apollo sit parens, Musa Orpheo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">58&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui saxa cantu movit et domuit feras</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">59&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Herebique  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">Hebrique</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Hebrique  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Herebique</span></span> tenuit impetus dulci mora.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">60&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ergo hinc abesto <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n94/mode/1up">p.31</a>]</span> <span class="fp-correction" title="libor  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">livor</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="livor  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">libor</span></span>, ne frustra gemas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">61&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quoniam mihi sollemnis debetur gloria.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">62&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je vous ai prié de me lire ; mais je vous demande un jugement sincère</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">63&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et digne de votre impartialité.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">62&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Induxi te ad legendum ; sincerum mihi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">63&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">candore noto reddas judicium peto.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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